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FKIE_CVE-2024-5651

Vulnerability from fkie_nvd - Published: 2024-08-12 13:38 - Updated: 2026-06-17 08:16
Severity
8.8 (High) - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Summary
A flaw was found in the Fence Agents Remediation operator. This vulnerability can allow a Remote Code Execution (RCE) primitive by supplying an arbitrary command to execute in the --ssh-path/--telnet-path arguments. A low-privilege user, for example, a user with developer access, can create a specially crafted FenceAgentsRemediation for a fence agent supporting  --ssh-path/--telnet-path arguments to execute arbitrary commands on the operator's pod. This RCE leads to a privilege escalation, first as the service account running the operator, then to another service account with cluster-admin privileges.
References
secalert@redhat.comhttps://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2024:5453
secalert@redhat.comhttps://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2024-5651
secalert@redhat.comhttps://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2290540
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
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